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...Orange hall in Belfast while a meeting of the Protestant Orangemen was taking place inside (nobody was injured). And security alerts at schools, leisure centers and gas stations - all hoaxes so far - continue to disrupt daily life in Belfast and outlying towns. Together, these incidents are creating an uneasy tension in places once brimming with post-conflict confidence...
Still, episodes like this are stoking tension between the Administration and the Senate - particularly with the Finance Committee, which has vetted a number of the nominees for whom problems have emerged, including the tax issues that threatened to derail the confirmation of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and forced former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle to withdraw his name from consideration as head of HHS. One source close to the process says the Finance Committee is now giving such scrutiny to the tax records of Administration nominees that, amid the committee's larger concerns, it has questioned items as small...
...atmosphere of tension and mistrust is real - and no longer limited to the Finance panel. In recent weeks, three sources tell TIME, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has added a tax-related item to the basic questionnaire it presents to nominees it is vetting, asking them whether they have reviewed their tax returns for the past five years and can verify that they are accurate. And officials say that other panels, such as Homeland Security and the Governmental Affairs Committee, are moving slowly in vetting the nominees that are before...
...Worked alongside Putin in the St. Petersburg mayor's office in the early '90s. A former adviser to Medvedev noted that Putin often "regarded Medvedev's recommendations with respect." This seems to foreshadow his later position as Deputy Prime Minister during Putin's presidency. (Read "Signs of Tension Between Putin and Medvedev...
...Brown. Speaking of the agreements reached on tighter regulation of financial markets and institutions, French President Nicolas Sarkozy bigged up his own role in agitating for the measures: "That our Anglo-Saxon friends accepted all of this represents immense progress," he said, adding that "while there were moments of tension, we never thought we'd obtain such a big deal...